Make Some Easy Craft Stick People

This easy popsicle stick craft will keep your kids busily creating!

Making craft stick people is an easy art activity that you cand do with only a handful of supplies (craft sticks and markers is all you need!) and it you’ll be amazed at how creative your kids will be!

This craft stick project happened because I was desperate for a distraction, and it turned into one of our favourite art activities!

All the kids wanted to chill out and watch some TV, even I was happy with that plan, but the youngest was not. My youngest kiddo wanted to whine, and complain, and stand in front of the TV and make all his siblings mad.

So in sheer desperation, knowing that my youngest loves a good drawing activity, I grabbed some markers and the packet of craft sticks I’d bought earlier, dumped them in the middle of the coffee table, and drew a face on one. Before I knew it, all four kids were busy creating craft stick people!

How to make Craft Stick People.

This is such a simple, low mess, activity that works for kids of all age groups, and inspires lots of creativity!

Supplies:

• plain wooden craft sticks (jumbo ones work well for little hands)
• markers
• fine tip permanent marker (optional)

Yes, you really only need craft sticks and markers to do this easy art activity!

We used big fat craft sticks (more like tongue depressors) which were great for my three year olds little hands, but regular sized craft sticks work also.

We also used a black, fine line, permanent marker for some of the finer features, and we covered our table with a big piece of paper that would later become part of the creativity.

To make a popsicle stick person simply draw straight onto the stick. Start with a face towards the top, add some hair or a hat, then add some clothes.

We made a family of craft stick people, and then the kids drew a house on the paper covering the table so they would have somewhere to live!

This simple art activity kept my three year old happily creating for almost an hour!

We left the craft stick people out on the coffee table that night and in the next day I found all four of my kids busily creating more people and adding to our family!

Now our house is full of all kinds of weird and wonderful popsicle stick people, and monsters!

What started out as a way to distract my grumpy child on a cold and wet Friday afternoon, ended up as an ongoing creative project that all the kids enjoyed all weekend long!

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